§ The result
4 points separate Textkernel and Hogan Assessments.
Textkernel (Sourcing) edges Hogan Assessments (Assessment) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 51 to 47. Textkernel leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Hogan Assessments leads 1, including FRIA Support, and 2 are level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Hogan Assessments 44, Textkernel 55 — and at an 18% weight it carries 45% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Hogan Assessments
Hogan Assessments provides science-based personality assessments - chiefly the Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI), Hogan Development Survey (HDS), and Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI) - used to predict workplace performance for employee selection and development.
Vendor profile
Textkernel
Textkernel provides AI-powered CV/resume and job parsing, semantic search, and candidate-job matching technology (including the acquired Sovren engine) embedded inside ATS, job board, and HR systems.
§ The record
Hogan Assessments is filed under Assessment AI, Textkernel under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Hogan Assessments is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Hogan Assessments | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 1987 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Hogan Assessments 44 · Textkernel 55
2.0 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Hogan Assessments 50 · Textkernel 55
1.0 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Hogan Assessments 52 · Textkernel 60
1.0 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Hogan Assessments 36 · Textkernel 32
0.6 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Hogan Assessments 52 · Textkernel 55
0.4 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -3.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -3.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Hogan Assessments minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Hogan Assessments | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 44 | 55 | -11 | -2.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 32 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 51 (F) | -4 | -3.8 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Hogan Assessments | Textkernel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Hogan Assessments has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Textkernel has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Hogan Assessments, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Hogan Assessments last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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